Meteor across Alabama Sept 9, 2013A meteor that shot through the Alabama skies and disintegrated above Woodstock at 8:18 p.m. Monday night is shown in this footage from a camera at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville. Watch for the streak at the bottom center of the video. (Submitted by Bill Cooke, Marshall Space Flight Center
Meteoroid Environments Office)

The skies over the Birmingham area may have experienced a visit
from a fireball, or meteor, in roughly the last half hour.

There have been numerous reports on Twitter of a bright
flash of light in the sky, as well as reports of loud booms.

Matt Grantham -- a meteorologist with the National Weather
Service in Birmingham -- told AL.com he could not confirm that the occurrence
was a meteor but said that he suspects that it was, based on some of the same
reports on social media.

"My guess is that it would be a fireball, a meteor passing
though the atmosphere," he said.

Grantham said that the NWS is seeing reports of this
occurrence all the way to Columbus, Ga.

Twitter users reported seeing a streak across around 8:45 from locations
including Pelham, North Jefferson County, Cullman and Irondale.

The Vestavia Hills Fire Department, for example, responded to
about four reports of a loud boom that was heard in the Shades Crest Road area.

Some concertgoers at the Mumford & Sons concert at the Oak Mountain Amphitheater reported seeing the light streak across the sky.

Dozens of witnesses have reported seeing the event on the American Meteor Society web site, many from Alabama. Other reports came from Georgia and Tennessee.

"It was something I have never seen before," said a resident in
Harpersville.

Amazing, it was beautiful," said an observer in Northport.

"This is the largest meteor fireball I've ever seen!" according to an
observer in Lewisburg, Tenn.

Julie Marchman, in an email to AL.com, said that she spotted the fireball over Duluth, Ga. "It was a huge streak of light in the sky that looked like something
falling through space into our atmosphere," she said. "It change colors (from white to
green to red I think). Simply amazing!"